Strange Heart Beats, Arrhythmia??

[Jean27]

I am hoping to get some help on this problem I have had for about 3 years. I get a strange feeling in my chest like I could feel each heart beat in my chest and it is very bothersome. My heart is not skiping although I do get that palpatations at times also,but this is more like energy jumping around in my chest. This is an all day thing I get for days at a time. Sometimes it gets alot worse after eating a meal. My heart will feel like it is racing but most times if I take my pulse it is 72BPM but it FEELS much faster.  I have been for every heart test(Holter, 30 day monitor, stress test, echo)  and the only thing they found was an elongated mitral valve and trace regurgitation which they tell me both are nothing, is this true?? or could that be causing these feelings?
  Also If I am sitting still watching TV my eyes seem to flicker along with each heart beat. I now this sounds wierd and I am hoping you may have heard of this before but it's like every time my heart beats my eyes pulse. My blood pressure is not high at all so I dont know why that happens. I am 31 female, not overweight, non-smoker. I also have days where I feel out of breath and a rapid pulse just from walking up a flight of stairs and the very next day I feel fine walking up the same stairs. I really need to know whats going on any ideas....thanks so much and have a Happy Thanksgiving   Jean :)

[Veepster]

Dear All:

For remarks regarding my experiences and knowledge I have gained about heart murmurs and PVC's/PAC's, please refer to my comments under the category "PVC's and Murmur".  Thanks.  Veepster

[GimmeTheBeach]

Hi everyone; I am new to this forum.  I have had what I call "heart thumps" for the past 13 years....off and on.  I have been to the doctor twice about them...once, when they first started, and then again about a year ago.  The first time I was 33, and was under quite a bit of stress.  My family doc did an EKG and told me that my heart was not skipping beats, like I had said it felt like.  He said what was actually happening was that on one beat the heart was not pumping all the blood out of it, which made it feel like it skipped that beat, when in reality it just did a fainter than normal beat.  The next beat would have to hit harder, to get the blood out, so it would feel like a big THUMP in my chest.  He told me it was a benign condition and that it can be caused by caffeine (which I didn't ingest), smoking (which I didn't do), drinking alcohol (which I didn't care for), and stress....of which I had an abundance!  After finding out that I was not terminal, the heart thumps began to subside.  They have come on me throughout the years, and if I dwell on them, they will get worse.  Last year when I went to the doc with them again, the new guy did an EKG and said it was fine.  He told me I might be having some PVC's or PAC's.  The thing was that I was having them while he listened to my chest.  Do they not present themselves to someone listening with a stethoscope?  Anyway, I fully believe that these heart thumps are made worse by big meals, a vertabrae being slipped out of place in your back, and by obsessing over the idea of having the heart thumps.  Adrenaline is a major culprit, in my opinion.  When your body has too much of it, and you aren't being active....the adrenaline has to do something, right??  Therefore, anxiety might be an underlying problem. Thanks for letting my ramble on!  Peace, Love, and Unity....Gayla

[fields180]

I just love this site.  I have been having attacks of tachycardia for almost 2 years.  It only bothers me at night during deep sleep.  Lately, I have been having missed beats.  I had a cardio workup (monitors, EKG, echo, and treadmill stress test) I was in better shape than I thought.  However, I let everything worry me.  I worry because I'm behind on my worrying.  My doctor listens and sympathesizes but there's not much he can do besides meds.  I love reading everyone's notes because they are me.  I feel a little hope now and want to go on with my life without worrying.  Anyone have any ideas???  I have a wonderful family and home.  I just want to enjoy things more instead of worrying when the next attack will be.  Please lend some reassurance.

[Ianna]

Hi,
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Yes, I suspect 90 percent of the PVC and PAC's sufferers experience these rotten BUMPS while lying down; whether it is in the evening or after a (BIG) meal.
It's got to do with the nervous system.
I know the tissue surrounding the heart gets irritated by something...ie. The stomach, the lungs, the bowels,the esophaegus etc etc.  
...anything down there...
You can find much more info here by looking through the posts on the archives.
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I'm not a med.person mind you! Go see your MD if you stay concerned.
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Good luck - *Ianna*

[doug99collins]

I am getting an irregular heart beat only when I lie down.  My Doctor says that I only notice it then, but that is not true.  I feel a fluttering in my chest that I would notice any time of the day.  They even wake me up (usually at about 4 or 5 am).  If I change positions they go away most of the time.  Sometimes I have to get up and walk around and then they go away.  For me it seems to be related to laying down.  Perhaps I have some kind of partial blockage and when I change positions or increase my blood pressure by getting up enough blood can then start flowing.  All this started after having my second hepatitus injection.  (4 am in the morning on the day I got the shot).  Saw some posts elsewhere relating the hep shot to these symptoms...  Anyone else have irregular heart beat brought on by laying down?

[jaz5802]

We all pretty much have "something" that runs in the family.  Yours is heart related. Mine is heart, diabetes, alcoholism....

Sorry to hear of your Mom.  That's stressful enough in itself.

If I had your concerns, especially since you have heart issues in your family, I would go get checked out.  If there's nothing there, you have peace of mind.  If there's something there (and I doubt it from what you're saying), you can take care of it.

For me, the not knowing is worse than the knowing.

Keep on reading these posts. There's a lot of information here.

Beth